I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.